Xiao Zhao is worthy of being a master's student majoring in cultural heritage preservation. He knows all these historical records very well and can talk about them at will.
Mr. Liu nodded with satisfaction and motioned Xiao Zhao to continue.
Xiao Zhao continued, "As for the second Da Qi Tong Bao, it is the legendary 'Four-eyed Da Qi'. Around 1920, the trend of coin collection and research in my country was revived. In 1926, coin collectors in the south spontaneously founded the Ancient Coins Society and the journal "Ancient Coins", and the prosperity of coin studies began. The year before the establishment of the society, on April 2, 1925, Dai Baoting and Zhu Kezhuang found the 'Four-eyed Da Qi' in Poyang, Gan Province. The style is the same as the first Da Qi with missing corners. , a treasure that can shake the coin world. 'Mr. Dai got this coin and touched it for a short time before it was returned to the famous coin collector Zhang Shuxun', that is, it was soon sold to the coin king Zhang Shuxun, who was rich and had the world's largest coin collection at that time. He was the founder of the Ancient Coin Academy and was known as the "Southern Zhang" among the "Southern Zhang and Northern Bashu Luo". After Mr. Zhang got this "Four-Eyed Da Qi", he hid it in a secret room and never showed it to anyone. He even called himself "Qi Zhai", which shows how much Mr. Zhang loved this ancient coin. "
Hearing Xiao Zhao talking about this, Yang Jing couldn't help but recall some information about the coin king Zhang Shuxun.
Mr. Zhang Shuxun was born into the Zhang family of Nanxun, Huzhou. This family is a wealthy and prestigious family with rich collections from generation to generation. It also plays an important role in the modern history of China.
Zhang Shuxun can be said to be a milestone figure in the history of Chinese coin collection, and he represents an era. In the 1920s and 1930s, the trend of coin collection and research was extremely popular, and "Southern Zhang and Northern Zhang" stood side by side in the coin world. Later, Fang Ruo (Fang Yaoyu)'s coin collection was all owned by Chen Rentao in Shanghai, and later part of the collection was owned by Zhang Shuxun. Since then, most of the precious coins seen in the north and south have flowed into his hands. In that era, whether it was collections, financial resources, or knowledge and courage of coin collections, he could be said to "dominate the coin world" and was admired by his colleagues in the coin world.
Mr. Zhang's collection is also amazing, with countless treasures and rare pieces. It is said that he collected as many as 16 six-character knife coins from the Warring States period. It is inevitable that this "Four-eyed Da Qi" precious coin belongs to Zhang Shuxun. "Qi Zhai" and "Four-eyed Da Qi" are both famous in the coin world, which not only made Mr. Zhang famous, but also cast the name of Da Qi Tong Bao "Legendary Ancient Coin Famous Treasure".
It is no exaggeration to say that the reason why Da Qi Tong Bao is so famous in the ancient coin world is because of Mr. Zhang Shuxun; similarly, Mr. Zhang’s ability to become the king of coins is also closely related to this legendary "Four-eyed Da Qi".
Xiao Zhao continued, "There is actually a wrong story about this 'Four-eyed Da Qi'. People all believe that Mr. Dai Baoting bought this 'Four-eyed Da Qi' from a kid who played shuttlecock. Because the kid used this 'Four-eyed Da Qi' to play shuttlecock, he drilled four holes on it. That's the origin of the four holes on the 'Four-eyed Da Qi'. But this story is wrong. Mr. Dai Baoting once said in an article ten years after he got the 'Four-eyed Da Qi' that 'Da Qi Tong Bao was obtained from a grocery store merchant on the afternoon of April 2'. Therefore, we can see that this "four-eye Daqi" was not bought from a child playing shuttlecock. From the information in the text, such as "obtained from a grocery merchant, the coin was drilled with four small holes and returned to the original string", we can guess that this coin should be a big "leak" in the coin world. Soon after this coin was obtained, it was given to Mr. Zhang Shuxun for 500 silver dollars. At that time, 500 silver dollars could be converted into 40,000 kilograms of rice, which was the expenditure of an average family for two or three years. But this is not a "leak", and it can even be called the "biggest leak in the coin world". However, this kind of "leak" only favors those who are diligent and hardworking, such as Mr. Dai Baoting. "
"In the 1940s, due to the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Mr. Zhang Shuxun went to live in the United States, and the 'Four-Eyed Da Qi' was brought to the United States as one of his favorite precious coin. Mr. Zhang Shuxun later died of illness, and the whereabouts of the coin was lost. Most people in the coin world believe that this coin has been lost like the 'Missing Corner Da Qi', and it has become an eternal regret."
"As for the third Da Qi Tong Bao, it is called 'Blue Rust Da Qi'. It was purchased at a high price from an unknown channel by Mr. Chen Guangyang, a Singaporean who is known as the world's number one ancient coin collector, in the late 1990s. It was not made public until the beginning of this century. This is the third Da Qi Tong Bao. Teacher, I'm done."
Mr. Liu nodded slightly and said, "Xiao Zhao, what you said is good, very good, but there are still two mistakes in it."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Zhao's face immediately became embarrassed.
However, Mr. Liu ignored his disciple's embarrassment and directly pointed out the two mistakes that Xiao Zhao had just mentioned.
"First, Mr. Zhang Shuxun's 'Four-eyed Da Qi' was not lost, nor was it lost because of Mr. Zhang Shuxun's death. In fact, in the book "Zhang Jingjiang and Zhang Shiming Family" co-authored by Zhang Shuxun's son Zhang Nanchen and the famous writer Song Luxia, the true whereabouts of this coin was revealed for the first time, proving that the 'Four-eyed Da Qi' was not lost, but was kept in the Dai Jitao Foundation in the United States. In the section 'Mysterious Da Qi Tong Bao' of the book, a photo of the 'Four-eyed Da Qi' was published for the first time, filling in the historical gap. He also told people that in 19 In 1939, Mr. Zhang Shuxun and his family went to the United States because of the Japanese invasion of China. At that time, they were unable to take their collections with them, so they asked their relatives to take care of them. It was not until the victory of the Anti-Japanese War that they returned to Shanghai to take away 2,000 coins, including the "Four-eyed Da Qi". It was not until several years after Mr. Zhang Shuxun's death in 1948 that his wife, Ms. Xu, sold these ancient coins to Dai Jitao, a major collector in the United States at that time. After Mr. Dai's death, his huge legacy and collections formed the "Dai Jitao Foundation", and the "Four-eyed Da Qi" was kept in this foundation. "
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